slatey
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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In the all but abandoned Revel corporate offices, overlooking a slatey winter sea, two of the remaining Revel employees were waiting for Straub to arrive.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 7, 2015
There was only slatey void, through which he was going on for ever.
From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis
The scowling, slatey river was filled with ice-floes and chunks of floating, water-drenched snow that broke up into bobbing sheets of slush.
From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis
His eyes were a slatey blue—the color of the sea on a cloudy day.
From Michelangelo's Shoulder by John Moncure Wetterau
Billy Louise laughed a little, leaned, and grabbed a handful of slatey mane.
From The Ranch at the Wolverine by B. M. Bower
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